"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."

-- Catherine the Great

#Feelings Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.”
“We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and â€“ equally important â€“ to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”

Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.55, Vintage
“I bounced off a rock at the bottom and saw stars for a second, but I wasn't knocked out. It's the rush of rushes, the most incredible feeling I've ever had.”
“I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.”
“There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness.”
“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...”

Source : "A Karl Barth Reader".
“So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”

Source : American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963
“When I came to the States, I still wanted to be an electric guitar player. But moved to Santa Fe in '86. And just decided that nylon string guitar is really what I wanted to do... And that really change my life totally as well... And Santa Fe is one of those really unusual places that is such an interesting mix of culture. There is a lot of from restaurants to music... I remember one of the first groups I saw playing there in the back of a restaurant, was a banjo player, a classical violinist, and a flamenco guitarist. And I thought to myself, "What? You know, this is great."”

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